Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

vivatifosi

purch wrote: »

I hope you didn't place a wager on the result :eek:

Generali wrote: »

If she had she'd have got an early night at least.

I wanted it for Peyton Manning. Thought it would be a great story if he got dropped by the Colts and then won with the Broncos. I think I wanted it more than him though.

At least Bruno Mars was good.

purch wrote: »

Couldn't have been 6.

You get the usual random announcements that last for about the first 30 minutes, then about 30 minutes peace and quiet, then another couple of announcements for no apparent reason that wake you up, then another 30 minutes peace and quiet, then the food service and yet more random announcements, then just as you are settling down for a snooze, they like to tell you that you should settle down for a snooze...............then before you know it they are announcing stuff again because you are about an hour from landing :mad:

If you book a special meal you get fed before anyone else. Quick nip to the loo and you're all done before anyone even gets their food. Then slept through to breakfast. I have no idea whether there were any other announcements.

Only problem was, I then asked the complete stranger who I'd been sleeping next to for 6 hours if he would mind getting up to let me go to the toilet and promptly fell on him. I didn't realise that my left leg was still asleep.

Apart from the embarrassment, I can highly recommend the hypnosis track. Just make sure all of you has woken up before you get up.

vivatifosi

Nikkster wrote: »

In light of all this fruity talk, I ate a handful of the grapes which are lingering at the back of the fridge. I would rather have had a bit of chocolate, but I don't have any in at the moment, and I should be eating the grapes.

I'm sure I would be much more inclined to eat them if there was someone to feed them to me, but I think the grapes will be long past being edible if I wait for that :rotfl:

I love grapes. I would like them even more though if I was draped on a chaise longue being fed them by George Clooney in a toga.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I love grapes. I would like them even more though if I was draped on a chaise longue being fed them by George Clooney in a toga.

I like those little muscat grapes especially.

lostinrates

ladeeda wrote: »

I have discovered multi quote - this could get dangerous!



Mixed nuts & raisins also good for this and very filling.




I use audible.co.uk and download straight onto my phone. Portable books which I listen to driving, doing house work and any other time I can get away with it. My dyslexia is fairly severe in the reading department - takes reread after reread to understand what it is being said leaving me with frustrated brain ache. For me audio books are the perfect way to not miss out. I find that most authors/publishers pick the narrators very well and have seldom been let down by a voice.

Lack of daylight, sunlight affects us all in varying degrees, I think. About 15 years ago my dad was working in Finland & Iceland. Our Christmas presents that year were sun lights. They seem to be called sad lights now. I couldn't recommend them strongly enough, the difference it made in a relatively short space of time was incredible for me. I'll find a link and post it later.

I apologise , my writing errors make for especially challenging reading for a dyslexic I imagine .


I love to read. Its possibly my favourite thing in the world. I love greedily sucking up the words and turning them round in my mind and the shapes the make and...everything.

DH and I read books together sometimes. Sometimes we read silently in a knot other times we read aloud to each other. We both note how funny it is the first time we hear each ipothers interpretation of a non traditional name, for example, and how it changes the idea we have of the character. At some point its likely I'll have to make a shift to audio books ( I'm not meant to read lying down in the evening for example, but I do , ) and i truely dread it.

neverdespairgirl

I love grapes, but I've never really seen the point of George Clooney, or why people get worked up about him.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I love grapes, but I've never really seen the point of George Clooney, or why people get worked up about him.

Nope, with you there. But tbh, anyone who is prepared to feed me fruit deserves the opportunity.

If they have clean hands that is.

ladeeda

vivatifosi wrote: »

Re sleep. I arrived back in the UK yesterday, overnight flight. BA has a new thing on its audio soundtrack. It's like a relaxation soundtrack that talks to you and hypnotises you to sleep. I used it and it worked a treat - and I'm someone who never sleeps on planes in economy (I can in club but that's with a bed). I must have had 5-6 hours all together, not bad on a seven and a half hour flight.

I was thinking of looking for something similar for home. As a rule I sleep well, but I do sometimes get a bit of jetlag.

I use these types of aids to sleep. The first one on this link is my current favourite. It is a Buddhist meditation so if that's an issue don't listen to it

https://sites.google.com/site/guidedmeditationssite/

LydiaJ wrote: »

What sort of appointments do you do? Or would that out you for who you are IRL?

Not that I mind at all if people know who I am but too much info would be poor on my part. I work with families, usually therapeutic or advocacy. Currently I am at the control end of things, a position I am not entirely comfortable with. It's agency work with some awake nights. When I decide where I want to live I'll get a 'proper' job and sleep better

ukmaggie45

Nikkster wrote: »

Ooh - a lab? I take it that means you're another NP scientist?

Meant to answer this ages ago now, better late than never?

Maybe more of a Technician than Scientist? Clinical Chemistry, though so long ago now I've forgotten all of that... Mostly... But some stuff comes back and is useful...

It's over 20 years since I worked in a lab, that was a different lab, it was hell basically, and I was only working part time - needed to get home to collect daughters from school. Can't really say more about it as it would be too much info... PM me Nikkster if you want to know at least one place to avoid! Recently re-met a fellow Tech, who told me the bod in charge who bullied me when I was there left, new person even worse from bully stuff. Though I think the fellow Tech wasn't bullied originally but by new person maybe.

Hmm, didn't mean to go into this stuff so much. But I kinda get the feeling that some labs are an ideal place for the bullies to take over.

ladeeda

lostinrates wrote: »

I apologise , my writing errors make for especially challenging reading for a dyslexic I imagine .


I love to read. Its possibly my favourite thing in the world. I love greedily sucking up the words and turning them round in my mind and the shapes the make and...everything.

DH and I read books together sometimes. Sometimes we read silently in a knot other times we read aloud to each other. We both note how funny it is the first time we hear each ipothers interpretation of a non traditional name, for example, and how it changes the idea we have of the character. At some point its likely I'll have to make a shift to audio books ( I'm not meant to read lying down in the evening for example, but I do , ) and i truely dread it.

Your writing is lovely, really, so no apology necessary. I like that about this thread, it sounds comfortable, like a regular conversation rather than a bunch of people out writing each other. Fairly sure grammar & spelling mistakes would be tolerated too. That's nice.

I love your description of reading. I am memorised at how every body has access to the same words, yet some just have the ability to place them in an order that is magical. Another of life's mystery's...

michaels

Nikkster wrote: »

OK - serious grown up face on

Have been checking online for the sold price of my house to appear on Zoopla/ Rightmove (as an indication that everything has gone through with the Land Registry - yes, I know it would probably have been a better idea to check/ prompt the solicitor). Anyhow, it now appears with my purchase price and date on rightmove - but shows a couple of pics which it says are from Dec 2012 and a different estate agent. Obviously it doesn't change anything, but I would be curious to find out whether the house had been on the market before, and how much for.

Anyone have any ideas if this is possible/ if so how?

Phone the agent and ask?

lostinrates wrote: »

I hate sleeping in clothes. Even when freezing:o. I cannot bear feeling restricted if they don't turn at they same time as me or ruck up or twist. Ironically I can sleep on heaps of unmade bedding, the floor, i've been known to fill the made with random object s and then end up sleeping on them, but a nighty......nope.:o

( I do occasionally for propriety, like when sharing beds with people who weren't lovers, but never do that nowadays so not a problem. Its the thing I most dress about being made inpatient.......nightclothes!

I always sleep better when fir is here.

Giggity?

vivatifosi wrote: »

I'm with Nikks on this. I love a lot of Disney films. And like Nikks, my types of films were not on this list. Probably my favourite film series is Raiders. Not a trilogy, but would have been much better if it had stayed like that.

I thought that was one of the options? I am just the right age for starwars to be the answer.

I love reading but never get enough time. I sometimes think if I wasn't married I could satisfy almost my needs staying at home with the internet and a nook/kindle.

On the other hand tonight has been another 4 hours after getting DKs to bed (birthday for DD2 and DS so iced the cake we made together yesterday and gave them their favourite tea of sausages and mash) of trying to fix the adsl/lan. Have hacked the old isp modem router and managed to get it to connect to the new isp and then also got 85% of the lan working (both wireless access points and half the cat 6 network) so now only one PC (unfortunately the main doing stuff PC) is offline as the homeplug ports do not seem to be working correctly